[Oberon] V4 versus S3 survey

[Skulski, Wojciech]

Peter:

>Not necessarily. You either need to write an Oberon-2 back end for
> RISC-5 or change the Gadgets code to Oberon-07.

AFAIK Gadgets were programmed in Oberon-1. 

Oberon-2 back end for RISC5 would be a very valuable tool. Component Pascal would be also very valuable. 

Concerning BB, the window manager is using Windows system calls. 

One great feature of BlackBox was metaprogramming. You can create the GUI on the fly by running the symbol file through the metaprogramming tool. This feature does not depend on Windows.  It really helps. 

Metaprogramming sets BlackBox far apart from the pack in terms of the development. Imagine a software system where you can focus on code development and almost completely disregard developing the GUI. And you can still have a decent GUI, despite the fact that you do not spend time on it. It was genial. 

The user perspective is covered in my presentation: www.pas.rochester.edu/~skulski/Presentations/BB_Class.pdf. You need to endure half of it to get to the GUI stuff.

W.